71 BC

71 BC

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Events

By place

Rome

* Third Servile War ends — Slave uprising under leadership of Spartacus is crushed by a Roman army under Marcus Licinius Crassus. Slaves taken prisoner are crucified all naked along the Via Appia.
* Nessebar in modern-day Bulgaria comes under Roman rule.

Births

* Empress Wang Zhengjun (d. 13)

Deaths

* Spartacus, Roman slave and rebel leader (killed in battle) (b. 109 BC)
* Empress Xu Pingjun


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